"The Night's Too Long" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.

The song is about a restless young woman who decides to move from her small town to the big city, where she can take in the nightlife and meet the man of her dreams.

Her new office job (in the song's third verse) takes a back seat to her going out to the bars, where she dances and eventually consummates a relationship with the man she had been looking for.

Robin Denselow, writing in The Guardian, called the song an "epic narrative", stating that it "echoes Springsteen at his best.

"[1] Lisa Smith and Cyndi Hoelzle described the song favorably in Gavin Report, where they wrote that "Patty plaintively sings the story of a woman trying to break out of her small-town life.